Lawsuit against `Sinar' dropped

Lawsuit against `Sinar' dropped

The powerful Pemuda Pancasila youth organization has revoked
its lawsuit filed at the Central Jakarta District Court against
Sinar magazine.

A letter of revocation for the lawsuit was sent by Pemuda
Pancasila's lawyer Martua Siregar on Oct. 5, 1994, to the court,
a copy of which was made available to The Jakarta Post Wednesday.

The letter did not disclose the reason behind the revocation.

Sinar's front page story about debt collectors in August
followed the murder of one of the notorious debt collectors. The
article claimed that Pemuda Pancasila was also a debt-collecting
group.

The report drew criticism from Pemuda Pancasila and prompted
its chairman, Yapto Soerjosoemarno, to file the lawsuit.

Weeks later, however, Yapto's rebuttal was published in Sinar
subsequently cooling down the tense situation. (09)